Noah Webster
Directory
DIRECTORY, adjective Containing directions; enjoining; instructing.
DIRECTORY, noun
1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship, or religious services. The Bible is our best directory in faith and practice.
2. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, with their places of abode.
3. The supreme council of France, in the late revolution.
4. A board of directors.